Chapter 17- Hope's Injured and Lizzie's Missing.

Hope woke up startled around 3am. Everywhere was pitch black and she was naked. The cold November breeze wrapping around her body. She looked around but couldn't see anything or hear anything other than the wind whipping around the trees. Groggily, she pushed herself up from the ground but cried out in pain when she placed her right foot flat on the floor. She looked down and saw several cuts, scratches and bite marks with dried blood stuck to her skin. She shook her head slightly before she pushed on through the woods.

After about an hour of limping through the forest, Hope was greeted by the familiar sight of the Old Mill, dimly lit up in the distance. Her mind raced trying to recover the events of the nights, but she couldn't peace it together. The last thing she could remember was having a conversation with Jade in the movie theatre then… nothing. She pushed on through the dense trees, grimacing through the pain until she reached the mill and collapsed on the steps and hit her head. "For fuck sake." She groaned before she pushed herself up again. She headed to the cupboard and pulled out a fresh set of clothes, secretly thanking Lizzie for stocking it back up for her. "Lizzie." She whispered to herself.

She cautiously pulled her clothes on, before she turned and quickly headed back to the school, pushing through the pain until she reached her bedroom. She pushed the door open and met by darkness and emptiness. Hope switched on the light and became annoyed when she couldn't see Lizzie in her bed. She left the door open and hurriedly moved two doors down to the Twin's room. She knocked frantically a few times before she tried the door handle and pushed herself through the door. She flicked on the light and saw Josie asleep on her bed. She moved over to her bed and shook the younger girl awake. "Josie!... Josie!... Josie! Wake up!" Hope shouted.

"Hope! What are you doing? Why are you here?" Josie asked, rubbing her eyes as they adjusted to the harsh lights.

"Where's Lizzie? Have you seen her?" Hope rushed.

"She's in your room, isn't she?"

"If she was in my room, do you really think that I would be here asking you where she is?!" Hope spat, she groaned before she turned and limped hastily away. Josie quickly jumped out of bed and followed Hope, grabbing her dressing gown from the back of the door.

"Hope! What is going on, where is Lizzie?"

"I don't know. I've just woken up in the middle of the woods covered in blood with cuts, scratches, and bite marks all over me. And I think I've broken my foot. I don't know where Lizzie is. And I can't remember anything from the past 10 hours." Hope groaned as she forced herself back down the stairs and looked in all the open and closed rooms on her way to the main entrance.

"What's the last thing you remember?" Josie asked.

"Jade stopping me in the foyer of the theatre, she gave me her number and told me to text her. She said that she could explain everything that was happening with Penelope. She wanted me to give you her number again. She tried to compel me. I called her out on it, but she lied and said that she didn't. I thought it was strange, but she seemed kinda desperate." Hope stated as she passed the entrance and continued through the school.

"Hope. Stop. You need to sit down. You can hardly walk!"

"I'm not going to sit down until I find Lizzie!" Hope pushed on. Josie knew that it wasn't going to be easy to get Hope to stop so she did the only thing that she could think of in that moment. She syphoned some magic from the wall and casted a spell that knocked Hope out. Hope fell in the middle of the corridor with a thud. Josie rushed to check on her, she seemed fine given her current state. She looked up and down the corridor then groaned when she realised she couldn't leave Hope where she was so she rolled the older girl onto her back, grabbed her arms and pulled her into the common room, propping her up against the nearest armchair. She picked up a blanket from the back of the chair and covered Hope up before she took off running up to MG's room.

Josie arrived at MG's room winded from the running. She knocked on his door a few times before he opened it. "Josie? What are you doing here at 4:30 in the morning?"

"Lizzie… missing…. Hope… Hurt…" She panted, bending over slightly trying to catch her breath again.

"What do you mean Lizzie is missing and Hope is hurt?" MG puzzled.

"I don't know what happened… Come on." Josie replied as she took off back downstairs, MG quickly on her heels. They arrived in the common room and Hope was still in the same position that she had been left in.

"What did you do to her?" MG asked when he saw Hope.

"I had to knock her out. It was the only way to get her to stop. She's broken her foot and she's been walking on it for god knows how long."

"Do you know what happened?"

"Only what she told me. She said that she couldn't remember anything after leaving the cinema. She said that Jade stopped her and wanted to talk to her. Jade apparently told Hope that should explain everything that had happened and that she needed Hope to text her last night. Apparently, she tried to compel Hope as well."

"Did Hope text her?"

"I don't know. She didn't say and she doesn't have her phone on her so I can't check." Josie replied.

"Wait here." MG said before he vamped away and came back moments later. "Her phone isn't in her room, but Lizzie's was. Here." MG said as he handed Josie the phone. She turned the screen on and saw that Lizzie had a voicemail call from Hope.

"There's a voicemail on here from Hope." Josie stated she clicked on it and let the message play.

You have one new voicemail from Hope at 00:37am: Hey Babe. Don't be mad okay? But I have to leave the school for a while, and I don't know how long I will be gone for. Jade needs my help. She's having a problem with one of her sires and she's really struggling. Don't worry about me. I'll come and find you when I get back and I'll try and call you every day. I love you so much Elizabeth. I'll call you later.

"Is that it?" MG asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yeah, there's nothing else." Josie frowned. "What was so important to Jade that she needed Hope's help? How does she even know about Hope?... Can you che…"

"Check if Penelope is here? On it." MG nodded before he vamped away again. This time it took him slightly longer to come back, but when he did, Penelope was in tow.

"Why was I dragged out of bed at 4:45 in the morning for exactly?" Penelope frowned when she was Josie hoovering over Hope's unconscious body.

"What exactly is going on between you and Jade? And don't bother lying to me because Hope is injured right now, and Lizzie is missing. And all this has something to do with Jade and one of her sires." Josie seethed.

"Fucking Wendy." Penelope muttered.

"Who the fuck is Wendy?"

"Wendy was part of my coven. But Jade turned her, and she became a heretic. She was the one who kissed Hope, she's pissed at me because the Coven disowned her when she died. She wanted to make me pay for it. I met Jade today to tell her to keep her little pet under control because it was getting out of hand and that if she couldn't control her then the Coven would take matters into their own hands. I honestly thought that she could control her." Penelope explained.

"Why did you let it get this far in the first place? Why didn't you just tell me?" Josie retorted.

"I didn't know it was going to get this far! And I couldn't tell you, it's Coven business. They didn't want it getting out that one of our own was turned. They tend to kill everyone who knows about it. It was Wendy's job to watch over me whilst I was here. She blames me for losing her husband and her kids. They didn't know what she was turned but the Coven was quick to hide them away from her. When she first turned, she headed home but her family and her life were packed up and vanished. So she came back here and has been trying to make me pay for it, she blames me for her family being taken away because she was here and not with them."

"We will talk about this later but right now, we need to find Lizzie." Josie stated before turning her attention back to MG. "Do you know how to do a memory dive?"

"I've seen people do them, but I've never done one myself." MG frowned.

"Great, now is your chance to start. I need you to do a memory dive on Hope." Josie replied.

"I am NOT doing that. She will kill me."

"MG! You need to do it. It might be the only way we can find Lizzie."

"Can't you like do a … locator spell or something before forcing me to do a deep dive into Hope's subconscious?" MG asked.

"It will take longer for me and Penelope to step up a locator spell than I would for you to just jump into Hope's mind." Josie replied.

"I really don't know about this Josie…" MG trailed off as he looked at his best friend's pleading eyes. He sighed deeply before he spoke again. "Okay fine. I'll do it." He huffed before he moved closer to Hope and knelt beside her. "Please don't kill me." He whispered before he placed his hands on Hope's neck.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Caroline shouted, appearing out of nowhere and scaring the pupils.

"I… erm… I…" MG stuttered, jumping back from his position and removing his hands from Hope's neck.

"I asked MG to do a deep dive on Hope because Lizzie is missing." Josie stated.

"And you thought that letting Milton do a deep dive will give you answers?" Caroline questioned. "What would you have done if something had gone wrong and he got stuck in there? And since when did Lizzie go missing, and why is Hope hurt and unconscious?"

"I didn't know what I was meant to do. I just knew that I have to find Lizzie. Hope wasn't giving me any answers, so I knocked her out because it was the only way to get her to stop. She's limping around on a broken foot." Josie replied.

"It was Wendy, I'm pretty sure of it." Penelope chimed in.

"Wendy? As in your monitor Wendy? What does she have to do with this and why would she kidnap Lizzie and hurt Hope?" Caroline asked.

"She was turned by Jade almost a year ago now. She searched everywhere for her family before she came back to Mystic Falls about 3 months ago. Now she's trying to make me pay. She blames me for everything. So she's trying to destroy my life. I tried to help her, but the Coven has disavowed her, they've told me I need to sort it out." Penelope replied. "I don't know where her family are, no one will tell me."

"Why didn't you inform me or Alaric that your monitor was no longer around? And don't you dare say its Coven business because you know the rules for you being allowed to stay here. Does your mother know what's happened?" Caroline retorted.

"Mom! As interesting as this conversation is… We really need to find Lizzie, so are you going to do a deep dive on Hope?" Josie interrupted.

"Why exactly are we doing a memory dive on Hope?"

"Because she said that she doesn't remember anything since we left the cinema yesterday, she got about 10 hours unaccounted for. We know that she did until we got home around 10pm but after that she and Lizzie went back to her room, so we don't know what happened. She left a voice message on Lizzie's phone saying that she was taking off for a few days because Jade needed help and that she didn't know when she was going to be back." Josie replied.

"Okay." Caroline nodded before she moved closer to Hope and knelt down beside the younger girl. "Whilst I'm doing this, I need you and Penelope to set up a locator spell for when I'm done. It depends on how much Hope knows."

"Okay mom." Josie nodded before she stood up and exited the room, pulling Penelope along with her, leaving MG with Caroline and Hope.

Caroline took a deep breath, even though she didn't need to, and concentrated on Hope as she took the younger girl's hands in her own. It didn't take long before she entered Hope's mind.

"Hope? Are you here?" Caroline called out. She looked around and saw that she was in the Mikaelson Mansion. She walked through the foyer and up the stairs. Her footsteps echoed around the silent and empty halls. "Hope?" Caroline called out again as she continued walking along the corridor, trying the handle on every door she passed, each one of the locked. As she reached the end of the hallway, she rounded the corner and ascended the second set of stairs, she could faintly hear the sound of music coming from the farthest room. She continued her journey until she reached the door and knocked on it. "Hope? It's Caroline… I'm coming in." She said as she slowly pushed down on the door handle and inched her way inside. She looked around the room and found Hope sitting on the window seat looking out of the window, she could hear Hope muttering but there didn't appear to be anyone else around. "Hope?"

"Jesus! Caroline! You scared me." Hope jumped up from her seat and looked at the older woman. "What are you doing here? How did you get here?" Hope frowned.

"You are unconscious, out there I mean. Josie knocked you out because you were injured and apparently you were frantic." Caroline replied.

"So you just decided to jump into my head?"

"Well it was going to be Milton, but I stopped him. This isn't something a kid should be messing around with."

"Fine. Do you want a drink or anything?" Hope asked as she walked past Caroline and down to the kitchen.

"No, I'm fine thanks… Do you why I'm here? Do you remember what happened?"

"You've just said that I'm injured so I'm guessing something happened or this is just a really weird dream." Hope laughed as she started to make herself a coffee.

"Do you know where Lizzie is?" Caroline asked, concern resonating in her throat.

"I saw her about ten minutes ago, she said she was going for a walk around the old cemetery." Hope shrugged as she turned to face the tall blonde. "Are you sure you don't want a drink?"

"I'm fine."

"Okay. Your loss, my father keeps some good blood around here."

"Hope, I need you to focus… Do you remember what happened to Lizzie?"

"I've just told you, Lizzie's gone to the cemetery." Hope replied.

"No she hasn't Hope. She's not here. Out there, she's missing. You were the last person to see her."

"Caroline, I don't know what you want me to say… I've already told you were she is. Now if you would excuse me, I need to go and get changed. I'm meant to be meeting Lizzie for lunch." Hope smiled as she necked the last of her coffee, placing her empty mug in the sink then attempted to leave the kitchen but Caroline stopped her. As soon as Caroline grabbed hold of Hope's shoulders, they were both dragged into a vivid flashback.

*Flashback*

"Took you long enough. What was that about?" Lizzie asked as she walked up to Hope with her arms folded.

"Not sure yet. I'll let you know when I find out." Hope frowned as she looked back and watched Jade disappear with Penelope into the unknown. "I'm hungry." Hope stated as she turned her attention back to the group.

"Where shall we go?" MG asked, rubbing his stomach in anticipation.

"I'm feeling burgers and fries." Lizzie replied.

"Okay we'll go to Wendy's." Josie nodded and the group made their way to the restaurant.

Hope linked arms with Lizzie as they walked behind Josie and MG. She smiled as she looked down at the floor as saw that her and the blonde were in step. She thought there was something peaceful about the way they walked together, even though Hope Is considerably shorter than the taller girl, her little wolf legs could keep up the pace. It didn't take them long before they reached the restaurant and they all walked in and sat down. They chatted and ate for a while before it started getting dark and they decided it was best if they left because Josie didn't feel comfortable enough to drive late at night.

The hour drive home was quiet, the radio wasn't on and no one was talking. Lizzie had fallen asleep on Hope's lap and Hope ran her fingers through the younger girl's hair as she replied the conversation with Jade through her head. After a couple of minutes, she shifted her weight slightly so that she could pull her phone out of her pocket, trying her best not to disturb the sleeping girl. She quickly scrolled through her contacts until she found Jade's name and typed out a message.

Hope [9:38pm]: Hey Jade. It's Hope. So what's going on? You said that you would explain everything to me.

Jade [9:40pm]: I need your help. Is there any chance you can meet me tonight, alone? I promise I will explain everything in person. It's a long, complicated story.

Hope [9:43pm]: Why does that sound like you're going to murder me? Okay, fine. I can meet you in Mystic Falls around 11:30pm, do you know where Fell's Church is?

Jade [9:45pm]: I'm not going to murder you. And of course I know where Fell's Church is. See you then. Thanks Hope.

Hope shook her head as she pushed her phone back into her pocket. After another ten minutes Josie pulled up to the school gates, punched in the code and drove up the long drive, parking the car in front of the main entrance instead of the garages because she was tired and just wanted to sleep as soon as possible. Hope gently shook Lizzie awake and they all made their way into the school. MG said goodnight to the girls before he headed off to join Kaleb in the gym for a late-night workout session. Lizzie yawned and stretched before she turned and started making her way up to Hope's room followed by Hope and Josie.

"Good night." Josie yawned as she reached her bedroom door.

"Night Josie. Thanks for inviting me out today." Hope smiled as Lizzie just grunted and carried on walking into Hope's room.

"It's okay. Night Hope." Josie rolled her eyes at her sister before she headed into her own room, leaving Hope alone in the hallway. Hope waited in the hallway until Josie's door was shut before she continued to her own room. Lizzie hadn't bothered to close the door when she walked in so Hope was greeted with the sight of a naked from the waist down blonde struggling to pull her shirt over the top of her head as she made her way over to the bed. Hope chuckled slightly as she watched the events unfold in front of her, she quickly kicked the door closed before she walked over to the taller girl.

"Here, let me help." Hope smiled as her hands slid up the sides of the younger girl's arms and she pulled the shirt over the Lizzie's head and discarded it on the floor. Lizzie turned around and crashed on the mattress. She begrudgingly shuffled herself across to her side of the bed. Lizzie was that tired that she didn't even get under the quilt before she fell asleep. Hope shook her head, smiling to herself before she lightly pulled the quilt from under the taller girl and covered her up. "I love you." Hope smiled as she placed a simple kiss on her forehead before she grabbed a change of clothes and left the room. Hope checked the time on her phone then proceeded to the showers. She was in and out within 15 minutes and got dressed. Hope took her dirty clothes back to her room, placed them in her hamper then left again after she was satisfied that Lizzie was still sleeping soundly.

Hope checked the time on her phone again. It was almost 11pm, she sighed then started walking down the stairs and out the door. It didn't take her long before she got to Fell's Church. She sat down on the broken-down steps and waited. 11:30pm came and went and Hope was starting to grow annoyed. She picked up her phone from the steps and made a call, after the first couple of rings hope could hear a phone ringing in the distance. When the call went unanswered, she tried again and the same thing happened, she could hear a phone ringing in the distance. She pushed herself up from the steps and walked towards the noise. She walked around the outside of the depleted structure towards the treeline until something caught her attention in the distance just past the first layer of trees. Hope stopped, hesitating for a second before she pushed herself forwards. After a couple of minutes she reached a clearing, she called Jade's phone again and heard it just off to the left of her. Hope followed the sounds until she could see a figure slumped up against one of the trees. "Jade?" Hope called.

"Hope…" Jade coughed out, trying to push herself up from her spot at the tree roots, delirium setting in from the wooden branch protruding from her chest. Hope could see that Jade's shirt was ripped, she was covered in cuts and scratches. She also noticed the wooden branch sticking out centimetres away from the vampire's heart.

Hope stopped walking and knelt down in front of the older girl. She placed her right hand on top of the branch and her left hand on Jade's collarbone. "Who did this?"

"Wendy." Jade groaned.

"Okay. This is going to hurt. Try not to move." Hope stated as she felt Jade tense up against her hand. Hope was quick to pull the branch from the other girl's chest, but the blood-curdling scream still deafened her ears. "It doesn't look like it pierced through your heart but you're still going to need to drink from me, it will heal you faster and you'll be able to tell me just what the fuck is going on." Hope said as she checked all of Jade's wounds before she offered the girl her wrist.

"I can't… I can't drink from you. I won't be able to stop." Jade replied, pushing Hope's wrist away.

"You can and you will. I have more strength than you realise, and I will stop you when you've had enough." Hope stated and she pushed her wrist up to Jade's lips. Jade hesitated for a few seconds before the sound of rushing blood through veins became too much to bear and she bit down, wrapping her fingers tight around Hope's wrist as she drank as much as she could. After about a minute, Hope pulled her wrist out of Jade's grasp, watching as the wound healed up instantaneously, she shook her wrist before wiping the leftover wet blood onto her trousers and stood up, holding her hand out for Jade to take. Jade's focus was still on Hope's wrist, her ears still ringing with the sounds of rushing blood, her eyes shifted from the younger girl's wrist to her throat. The hunger and desire were burning deep within her and she lost all control and she threw herself towards Hope in an attempt to bite her neck. Luckily Hope could sense it was coming and she was quick to move out of the way, pushing Jade into the clearing behind her causing the older girl to stumble and fall onto the floor. Jade pushed herself up and lunged towards Hope again. Hope managed to get hold of her and kicked Jade's legs from under her, knocking the vampire back to the ground, her left hand gripped against the older girl's throat. "Stop fighting." Hope stated. "The sooner you stop, the easier it will be for you."

Jade thrashed around under Hope's firm grip but after about five minutes she calmed down. Her breathing was harsh, but she wasn't delirious or out of control anymore. "I'm good." Jade stated.

"Are you sure?" Hope inquired, her grip still firm against the other girl's neck.

"Yes, I'm sure." Jade retorted. Finally Hope let go of her neck and Jade pushed herself up at a seated position on the floor. "Thanks."

"No problem." Hope smiled as she stood up. Jade quickly followed suit. "So…"

"So… You want to know what's going on." Jade nodded before she turned and started making her way back through the woods.

"Yes. I didn't just leave my girlfriend asleep in bed without telling her where I was going for nothing, so an explanation would be preferable." Hope replied as she followed Jade back through the woods towards Fell's Church.

"Before I do. I need to be honest with you. I used to go to the Salvatore School. I was one of the first admissions. Alaric had only recently opened the school up and I was only there for about a year or two for I left. So I knew who you were, who Josie and Lizzie was when you walked into the restaurant. I'm not sure if Alaric or Caroline recognised me though, they never said anything, but it was around ten years ago, so I'm not surprised that they didn't remember me." Jade stated, she took a deep breath before she continued. "When I was at the school, I became friends with one of the witches from the Lunar Coven, her name was… is Wendy Belmont. We were inseparable at one point then we drifted apart when we both left but we kept in touch. About five years ago there was an incident… And I turned my humanity off." Jade shook her head as she recalled the incident but didn't vocalise it, it was still too painful to talk about. She pushed the memory aside and carried on talking. "Anyways, just over two years ago Wendy came back to town and we reconnected, she said that she was here on assignment but couldn't really go into details about it, about a year later I found it that it was because Penelope was enrolled at the School and Wendy was her monitor. That Coven is beyond weird for my liking but that's by-the-by. In the first year that Wendy was here, she convinced me to turn my humanity back on, I was adamant that I didn't want to do it, but she wore me down and convinced me it was for the best, so I did. I turned it back on. One night we met up at the Mystic Tap and we were talking and chatting then some guys came over and started hitting on us. We told them to leave us alone, but they were relentless. So we got up and left and they followed us. We tried to ignore them, but they carried on, we finally got fed up and decided to show them not to mess with us. But in all of the fighting Wendy got injured. She said that the Coven couldn't find out about it, so I healed her, I gave her my blood. Then the strangest thing happened, it was a complete fluke, like a one-in-a-million chance of it happening. She tripped over and smacked her head on the pavement, and she died. I completely freaked out and buried her body out here, right in the middle of Fell's Church. Don't ask me why because I don't know what was going through my head at the time. I was just freaking out and we were close by. I had a lapse in judgement and I completely forgot that she had drank my blood. I swear I was going to tell someone, I just… panicked."

"So why is she trying to hurt Penelope?" Hope asked as she was taking all of the information in, coming to a stop at the steps of the depleted stone structure.

"She blames Penelope for being sent here. If the Coven hasn't decided to send Penelope to the Salvatore School then she wouldn't have been here to watch over Penelope and she wouldn't have been turned into a Vampire, well a Heretic. I don't know why she still has her magic; she wasn't a syphon before this happened but I'm guessing that there must be something in her bloodline that allows her to continue to have magic even after she has died. The thing that pissed her off the most was the fact that her Coven took her husband and kids away from her, they haven't told her where they are, they just packed up their house and moved them. As far as I'm aware I don't think her family knows what's happened, but I can't be too sure because I'm not part of the Coven, obviously. So she's trying to hurt both of us. She blames me as well." Jade sighed as she sat down next to the younger girl.

"Okay. That is a lot. So what do you need my help with?" Hope nodded, different thoughts swirling around in her head, but they always come back to protecting Lizzie at all costs.

"I need someone to help me convince Wendy to switch her humanity back on and stop this madness." Jade replied.

"Okay. I need to make a phone call then I'll help." Hope nodded before she stood up, walked away as she pulled her phone out of her pocket. She quickly scrolled through her contacts until she found her girlfriend's name. She wasn't sure if Lizzie would answer because she was completely exhausted when she left her but she a part of her was glad when she didn't answer, and she could leave a voice message instead. "Hey Babe. Don't be mad okay? But I have to leave the school for a while, and I don't know how long I will be gone for. Jade needs my help. She's having a problem with one of her sires and she's really struggling. Don't worry about me. I'll come and find you when I get back and I'll try and call you every day. I love you so much Elizabeth. I'll call you later." Hope ended the call and turned off her phone before placing it back in her pocket, as much as she loved Lizzie there was no way she was prepared to deal with the tirade the young blonde would give her when she wakes up.

Hope walked the short distance back to the steps and sat back down next to Jade. "Sorted." Hope stated. "So how do we find Wendy? Do you know where she is? Where do we start?"

"How about you start right here?" Wendy declared as she appeared from behind the structure. "This is your plan Jade, really? Enlisting Klaus Mikaelson's daughter to help? You really think that is going to work?"

"I just thought she could talk to you, convince you not to go through with this. You don't have to hurt anyone anymore. Wendy please? Can we talk about this? I don't want to hurt you." Jade replied, quickly standing up to greet her friend.

"Like you could hurt me. Look what happened earlier…" Wendy laughed. "A part of me wished I killed you, but you know what. I'm glad I didn't because when I saw THE Hope Mikaelson come to your rescue, I knew what I had to do to make sure she didn't try anything."

"What did you do?" Hope finally piped up after watching the two friends flex themselves.

"Oh you know… Just took out a little insurance policy. I mean Hope made it quite easy given that she had already left the school and came here to meet you." Wendy grinned.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO WENDY?!" Jade shouted, stepping closer to the other girl.

"Take a look for yourself." Wendy laughed as she pulled a phone out her pocket and threw it at Jade. Jade caught it and the screen was already had a video pulled up. Hope moved closer to watch the video as well. Jade hit play on the video and they were greeted by images of Lizzie tied to a chair inside a stone structure. There was some writing carved into the wall, it looked like a name and date of some sort, but it was faded, and they couldn't make out what it said. Hope figured it might be a memorial of some sort, but she couldn't be too sure. The images of Lizzie struggling pulled her attention back to reality and Hope became increasingly pissed off, it was making her blood boil. Most of the time Hope could control her temper, her rage and she knew that this day would come eventually. The day that someone would use the love of her life against her. She swore to herself that she wouldn't let anything happen to Lizzie but now, inadvertently by coming to help Jade, she had put Lizzie in danger, and she heated herself for it. Even though every ounce of her mortal being was trying to reason with her wolf, her wolf sensed danger and it was gnawing to be released. She fought herself for as long as she could before started shouting.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU IF YOU LAY ANOTHER FINGER ON HER!" Hope shouted, her wolf getting more and more enraged by the second. It didn't take long before she was seeing red and she turned. Her wolf finally took over and she was changing. Once fully transformed she bared her teeth at Wendy, basically telling her to run.

And that's what Wendy did. She ran, full vamp speed through the woods. Hope howled before she took up the chase. It didn't take her long to pick up Wendy's scent as she sprinted through the woods. After about five minutes she came to a clearing, Wendy's scent was strong, so Hope knew the other girl was close by. Hope apprehensively creeped forwards into the clearing, scouting the area as she goes when suddenly she was thrown clear across the grass. She landed with a whimper but got up and turned to face the heretic; growling and baring her teeth. She lunged forwards but was knocked back. It happened several times, each time getting closer and closer to Wendy, until the final time when she was close enough to finally bite the older woman. She managed to take a decent sized bite out of Wendy's neck. Whilst Hope was biting Wendy, Wendy was able to grab hold of one of Hope's hind legs and threw her across the clearing, straight into a tree. Hope yelped in pain as she felt her bone brake. She was dizzy and disoriented and didn't see Wendy approaching her. Jade appeared out of nowhere and started fighting Wendy, she was screaming and shouting at her friend. Both of them were throwing punches, pulling each other's hair, and trying their best to outdo the other before Wendy managed to get hold of a wooden branch and stab it through Jade's heart. Hope growled at the scene in front of her and her frustration of being unable to help. Wendy pulled the stake out of Jade's chest before she threw it on the floor and turned her attention back to Hope.

Wendy limped the short distance over to Hope before she stopped just short of her wolf. "I'm not going to kill you, just yet because I need you to get a message to Penelope for me. But first… I'm going to need your blood, seeing as you've bitten me." Wendy smiled as she quickly closed the distance and pinned Hope's wolf to the ground before she took a bite out of Hope's neck and started drinking. Hope tried her hardest to fight against it, but with the loss of blood she was struggling, and she could feel herself slipping into unconsciousness. And Wendy could too, so she stopped. "Tell Penelope… She needs to get my husband and my sons here within 12 hours. Or Lizzie dies. And once Lizzie is dead, I'll be coming for her next. Any anyone that stands in the way of me and my family." Then Wendy stood up and swiftly kicked Hope's head, knocking her out before she disappeared.

*End of flashback*

"You weren't lying when you said Lizzie was at the Cemetery. You recognised it without realising it. She's in a mausoleum. I'm not sure which one though. Hopefully, this will help Penelope and Josie with a locator spell." Caroline said as she pulled away from Hope.

"Will you get Josie to wake me up please? And also. I'm going to need some blood, my blood from the 'werewolf bite cure' section. I need to be there when we get Lizzie back. I can't just sit here and do nothing." Hope asked.

"Sure thing. It might take me a while, but I'll get it sorted." Caroline nodded. "I'll see you soon Hope."

"Thanks Caroline." Hope replied before she watched Caroline disappeared just as quickly as she appeared. Hope sighed as she sat down on the floor of her mind palace and started crying, fully crying to the point where she didn't think she knew how to stop, her body aching for Lizzie and she just needed to get her back.

"Mom! You're back. You've been gone almost 2 hours. What took so long?" Josie asked, startled by Caroline's now moving body.

"All I know is that Lizzie is in a cemetery somewhere. And that Wendy is adamant that she wants to see her family. She told Hope that Penelope has 12 hours to get them here or Lizzie is dead." Caroline replied. "But we are not going to let it come to that. We are going to get Lizzie back. Milton, I need you to go and get some of Hope's blood out of the fridge. It won't be labelled but It will be hidden behind all the other blood bags. It will say werewolf bite cure on it. Bring three bags. And Josie, when he gets back, you will need to wake Hope up."